If you are on your deathbed, — in short — what's the one message you would like to leave behind before you die?

In such a busy world, it can be difficult to remember to turn inward. I’d like to take a moment to self reflect and remind yourself what you love about yourself. No pressure to share if you don’t feel comfortable. Much love x Ashley

I came across some notes I took from a business seminar I attended over 20 years ago and one of the sentences I’d underlined was, and I’m sure you’ve heard it before: ‘Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life’ I reflected on that, twenty years on from having written it … I’ve been in the coaching industry since I was 16 and over the last decade, I’ve helped thousands of coaches to grow their coaching businesses. All of them have heard that quote, but where does that fit in to the success of their coaching businesses? What’s the difference between the coaches that make it and those that don’t. What do really successful coaches do that most don’t. We all have to learn to be a better coach. We all have to learn to run a coaching business. We all have to learn marketing, sales and operations if we want it to be successful. The truth is after that, once you know those things, the success of your coaching business will come down to one thing. How you deal with the boredom of running your coaching business every day. We talk about loving what we do, being passionate about it, really wanting it, etc. When we find ourselves going off track, we look at other coaches around us and think that their success is because they can dig deeper into that love of what they do. I’m no different to any other coach, you included. I sometimes feel the same lack of motivation as you. To stay motivated, we need to look for new challenges that push us and at the same time still make progress with what it is that we are doing. We need to experience that newness so that what we’re doing still provides us with satisfaction. Without variety in what you do, you get bored, and it’s that boredom that is the greatest threat to the growth of a coaching business. The difference between the coaches that succeed and those that don’t is that they still are able to do what’s needed to be done, despite the feelings of boredom. To master coaching or sales or marketing requires practice.

What are your strategies for effectively absorbing and remembering key insights from audiobooks? How do effectively retain and internalize the crucial insights from audiobooks without the immediate possibility of note-taking?

Ho'oponopono is a very simple process where you first recognize your own responsibility for creating everything in your life and then apply these words: “I'm sorry, forgive me, thank you, I love you.” This is repeated several times over a period of time until you feel the situation has been “cleansed.” I use this almost daily. Do any of you use it? It definitely helps me to focus my mind- I am now writing it down too. I'm linking with the writing of "I am responsible for everything in my life". Forgiving myself, others - situations. Work in progress. Do any of you use it? Do you write it down? Do you notice the shift? Do you notice the benefits? Have a great day